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by netsharc 8mo ago
Ghislaine Maxwell asks where to send her CV in, she's going to be available for work soon...
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by netsharc 8mo ago
Gotta love the German creativity in naming. It's called "C Net" because that came after "B Net", which came after "A Net". While "A" apparently stood for "Autotelefon" (car phone). And
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by netsharc 8mo ago
Sheesh. I meant that as a step 1 to get a list of suspect users, and then you read the users comments to see if they're all breaking the rules. (The same thing you'd do if you get a report of a user being "moronic" over
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by netsharc 8mo ago
Ah, from the robotics company that said "look at the dancing robots" which are humans in spandex... An "AI" company went bust when people found that it was humans doing the work. But if you're Elmo..
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by netsharc 8mo ago
I don't have the name(s) off the top of my head, but can't you do a query of users whose account age are greater than (some threshold) but whose median comment score /amount of flagged to death comments is past some other thr
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by netsharc 8mo ago
There are some trolls in here that seemingly evade getting banned despite their moronic comments... Also, many comments just take a wrong premise and attack you (e.g. that not wanting the slaughter of innocent people equals supporting terro
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by netsharc 8mo ago
Your examples are ridiculous though.. The meaning of "[G]esundheitszeugnis" can be derived if you understand the 2 words. Meanwhile, a Bahnhof would be a "Yard/square of lanes" if one didn't get taught that it&
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by netsharc 8mo ago
It does reek of corruption, but it seems being ambassador to a close ally is basically getting several years of taxpayer-paid vacation in Europe. They're positions that have to be filled, and a career diplomat ending up in Sweden might
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by netsharc 8mo ago
What if it's for crimes like... a terminated pregnancy (considered a crime in many states)? Or the "Unamerican" act of calling Trump a cunt?
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by netsharc 8mo ago
AI enhanced language monitor, what a double plus good improvement for society!
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by netsharc 8mo ago
I've gotten a visa to a country that doesn't use Latin characters. My name got transliterated. At the bottom of the visa there's the machine-readable field that uses ASCII characters, and my name lost a character (a OU became
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by netsharc 8mo ago
What if a user with the name kссqzу (k[Cyrillic c][Cyrillic c]qz[Cyrillic y]) pretends to be you, sends your friend a PM and extracts a secret out of them?
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by netsharc 8mo ago
What a depressing portfolio... Their reconstruction of the Beirut Port explosion was incredible though: https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/beirut-port-...
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by netsharc 8mo ago
If you have 3 hours, there's a documentary you can watch, about a man who was sanctioned by the government to kill a lot of "communists" in 1960's Indonesia: The Act of Killing (available at e.g. https://www.y
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by netsharc 8mo ago
The Portuguese acronym does sound like an urban legend, but I wonder if there are things that got their names from some random writing on the packaging... Not "Xerox machine" since that's the actual brand. In Indonesian, razo
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by netsharc 8mo ago
Or Black Mirror's Shut Up and Dance?
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by netsharc 8mo ago
Today in how to write like a YouTuber...
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by netsharc 8mo ago
> https://tritium.legal/blog/redline Halfway through this blogpost, I realized it's written for idiots used to the Buzzfeed/Twitter-style of "One sentence per paragraph". Fucking infuriating.
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by netsharc 8mo ago
> What is true - and one wasn't allowed to say - was that the measures intended to prevent COVID weren't very effective and did more harm than good. But yet here you are saying it. Whether it's true or not probably require
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by netsharc 8mo ago
I wonder what event triggered them to add this. The mention of US Patriot Act is intriguing considering they're a French company (I thought the app was maintained by one Frenchman, but following the LinkedIn link on their website shows
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by netsharc 8mo ago
Apparently the virus was able to ruin cognitive function that people struggling to breathe thought they're fine. (Ok, it seems too convenient that the virus can do this...).
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by netsharc 8mo ago
Gemini now "knows the time", I was using it in December and it was still lost about dates/intervals...
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by netsharc 8mo ago
Hah, looking forward to when AI discovers it can entice humans with money to do things. Maybe the next step of AI will be a machine "employing" humans to check for any faults in its logic. Members of the line-must-go-up tribe (I&#
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by netsharc 8mo ago
Meanwhile in Hollywood: https://www.fortressofsolitude.co.za/the-highwayman-reboot-t... In one episode the helicopter actually detached and flew!
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by netsharc 8mo ago
But why would they need money? We humans need food, shelter, and occasionally a vacation (more vacation if you're European vs. American or Chinese). What does the AGI need? I suppose to buy GPUs and pay the electricity bill? Hah, AI &q
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by netsharc 8mo ago
The coding assistant for VSCode is nuts (i.e. gets it wrong a lot, also one time it just got so confused). I have Gemini Pro for free for a year because I bought a Pixel phone, it answers very fast, so I like it. Let's see how I'l
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by netsharc 8mo ago
I moved to a new city for college. I made a friend, who I considered well-off (he was also a bit heavier). One time I went to his place, and he wanted to have some snack, so he grabbed a jar of Nutella and some sliced bread. On a piece of b
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by netsharc 8mo ago
Hmm, Google Gemini has access to my Google Tasks and can set reminders. It's also asked me if I want it to check something at "tomorrow 9am", and when I said yes, it managed to do that.
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by netsharc 8mo ago
Like that college kid, it appears you also suffer under the myth of American superiority...
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by netsharc 8mo ago
> UK gov for some unexplained reason decided that they are responsible for housing and feeding them. The money comes from taxing UK citizens. I see your winginess from your post. You're going to stop reading this because you'll

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